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ORNAMBNTING GANDLBS. No.L 472,945.

Patented Apr.- 12, 1892.

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THOMAS v. rons'rnn, or AvALoN, 'AssIeNon To W. a i-r.v WALKER, or

ALLEGHENY,PENNSYLVANIA.

ORNAMENTING CANDLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 472,945, dated April 12, 1892.

Application filed November 20,1891. Serial No. 412,518. l (Specimens.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS V. FORSTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Avalon, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented or discovered a certain new and useful Improvement in Ornamenting Candles, of which improvement the following is a specification.

In an application tiled October 30, 1891, Serial No. 410,356, I have described and claimed generally a process for marking or ornament- The invention described herein relates to certain improvements in or species of said generic process, and Will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, -forming a kpart of this specication, Figure l is a sectional elevation of aform of machine adapted for the practice of my invention in marking candles. Fig. 2 is a plan View of thesame, and

-Fig. 3 is a View of a marked or ornamented candle.

In the practice of my invention, in connection With the apparatus shown in the drawings, the candles are placed by an attendant upon the inclined bed l and roll down the same until arrested by guide-bars 2 and the spring 3, which are designed to adjust the candles longitudinally into proper position for marking. The guide-bar and spring stop the candle, so that it may be caught by the ref` ciprocating bed 4 'and rolled along the bed and over the heated type 5. The bed4 is provided With a post or standard G, projecting up through a cross-head 7, having its ends mounted in suitable guideways in the side pieces of the machine and connected by pit? man S to a crank-pin on the wheels 9 on the the bed 4 above the bed l a distance greater than the diameter of the candles. As the crosshead reaches the end of its movement to the right, at Which time the left-hand end of the bed 4 is over a candle held between the.

bar 2 and spring 3, the vcross-bar -11 drops ott the plates 1,2, and the bed 4, Whose under face is covered with telt or other suitable cushion, descends upon the candle, the post 6 being made of such a length relative tothe height of the side pieces of the bed 1 that the entire weight of the bed 4 Will be Aupon the candle .6 5 example, by arranging it over or on a hollow blocker shell-14, through which steamV or other hot Huid is caused to circulate. The type or die should be made sufficiently hot to quickly melt or soften so much or such portions of the candle as come in contact With the raised parts ot' the type or die as thecandle is rolled With comparative vrapidity over the type or die. It is desirable,in order to obtain a sharp clearv mark or ornamentation, that the candle should remain in contact with the ltype or die for a short time only, so as to prevent any urndue spreading or extension of the softening or melting action of the type or die.

In treating candles or other articles containing stearic acid or other corroding mate'- rial such acid or other corroding material Will attack the dies When formed of metal-such yas copper, brass, or other analogous metal or alloy-and form therewith a dark compound. This compound or coating is formed very quickly. In fact the action of the stearic acid on the copper or brass type or die seems al most instantaneous and is absorbed or taken up by the softened or liquefiedmaterial and `stains or discolors the same.

I claim herein as my invention- As an improvement in the art of marking or ornam enting candles and other articles, the

herein-described method, which consists in by the heat of .thestype or die, substantially pressing a heated type or die having the deas set forth. Y I0- sred mark oi' ornamentation thereon andvIn testmonyrwhereof I have hereunto set formed of a material capable of-forming a dismy hand.

5 coloring oompound with the steario acid of f THOS. V. FORSTER.

the candle or other article, said compound loe Witnesses: coming mingled with the material of the'oan- R. H. WHITTLESEY,

dle or other artiole when softened orliqneed DARWIN S. WOLOQTT. 

